Corset-fastener.



Patented Jan. 9, I900.

E. J. FINK.

CORSET FASTENEB.

(Application filed July 10, 1699.)

.(No Model.)

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EDGAR J. FlNK, OF HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA.

CORSET-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 640,893, dated January 9, 1900.

Application filed July 10,1899. Serial lie-723,394. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, EDGAR J. FINK, of Hanover, in the State of Pennsylvania, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Corset-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in corset-fasteners, the object being to provide simple and efficient means for positively and quickly disconnecting the meeting edges of corsets; and it consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully-described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan view of my invention, the parts beingshown in their normal or locked positions. Fig. 2 is a similar view from the rear side of the steels. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the front side of the steels, the parts being shown in an unlocked position. Fig. 4 is a similar view from the rear side of the steels, and Fig. 5 is a transverse section on line at x of Fig. 1.

A A represent the two steels, which are adapted, as will be readily understood, for insertion at the respective front meeting edges of a corset. The steel A is provided at suitable intervals throughout its length with a series of plates 1, preferably integral there with or riveted thereto,the outwardly-extending portions thereof being provided with L- shaped slots or openings 2 for the reception of the locking-studs to be hereinafter described.

Mounted in steel A are a series of hookshaped locking-studs 3, having eccentric heads, which when brought into proper position relative to slots or openings 2 in plates 1 of steel A will pass readily through said slots or openings. Each stud 3 passes through the steel A and is rigidly connected at its rear end to one end of a crank 4, which latter, near its opposite end, is provided with an outwardly-projecting pin 5, adapted to engage and move within the slotted or bifurcated end of plate 6,car ried by the longitudinally-sliding steel 7. This sliding steel 7 is preferably of a width less than that of steel A and is so supported by the latter that their adjacent side edges are in contact during the longitudinal movement of the sliding steel and also when it is at rest. Steel 7 is supported in the position above described by a series of clips or U-shaped straps 8, secured at intervals along the edge of steel A, within the looped sections of which said steel 7 is movably supported.

Mounted in a suitable bearing formed near the upper end of steel A is a post 9, provided on its front end with a pivoted or swinging thumb-piece 10 and connected at its opposite or rear end with one end of the operatingplate 11, which latter is slotted at its opposite end to receive a pin 12, carried by the sliding plate or steel 7, whereby the latter is moved 'vertically when post 9 is rotated. Thus it will be seen that when vertical movement is imparted to steel 7 by the partial rotation of operating-plate 11 the studs 3 will also be partially rotated through the vertical movement of plate 6, which latter transmits motion to cranks by engagement with pins 5, and as the locking-studs are rigidly secured to cranks 4 it will be obvious that a partial rotary motion will be directly imparted to said locking-studs by the movement of said cranks.

The meeting edges of a corset provided with my invention may readily be fastened together whether the locking-studs are in an unlocked or locked position, and when in the latter position they can be easily and quickly passed through the horizontal members of the L. shaped slots or openings formed in plates 1, and their eccentric heads made to engage or rather project over the outer edges of said plates 1,whichlatter position is brought about by the expansion of the corset. To release the locking-studs, it is only necessary to turn the studs into coincidence with the vertical members of the L-shaped slots or openings by partially rotating the thumbpiece secured to post 9, when the said locking-studs will readily slip back out of engagement and the corset be unfastened. This partial rotation imparted to post 9 causes the operating-plate 11 carried thereby to transmit vertical movement to sliding steel 7 and the bifurcated plates secured thereto, and as the latter are in engagement with the free ends of cranks 4 it follows that a partial rotary motion will be imparted to all of said cranks, which in turn will cause studs 3 to rotate in such manner as to bring their eccentric heads in proper alinement with the vertical members of L-shaped slots or openings 2, and thus release said studs, as already described.

It is evident that changes in the construe tion and relative arrangement of the several parts might be made without avoiding my invention, and hence I would have it understood that I do not restrict myself to the particularconstruction and arrangement of parts shown and described; but,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a corset-fastening, the combination with two steels, one having eyes, hooks revolubly mounted in the other steel and a crank projecting from each hook, of a sliding steel mounted to slide on the steel carrying the hooks, a series of slotted plates projecting from the sliding steel and engaging the cranks on said hooks, a thumb-piece mounted in the steel carryin g hooks and con neetions between said thumb-piece and the sliding plate for manually moving said sliding plate positively in both directions to lock or release the fastoning.

2. In a corset-fastening, the combination with two steels, one having eyes, hooks revolubly mounted in the other steel, of cranks on said hooks, a pin on the free end of each ;a a iases crank, a sliding steel mounted to slide longitudinally on the steel carrying the hooks, slotted plates or lugs projecting from the sliding plate and engaging said pins, a plate or arm pivotally mounted in the steel carrying the hooks and provided with a slotted end, a pin on the sliding steel to receive said slotted end of the pivoted plate or arm, and a thumb-piece connected with said plate or arm for turning it.

3. The combination with one of the steels, the same having thereon plates-provided with slots or openings, of a second steel having therein a series of bearings, locking-studs mounted in said bearings, cranks attached to the rear ends of said studs, said cranks provided at their free ends with pins, a sliding steel slotted plates projecting from said sliding steel and engaging said pins, straps for supporting the last-mentioned steelalong one edge of the steel carrying the locking-studs and an operating-plate carried by said last mentioned steel and adapted to engage a pin carried by said sliding steel for the purpose of imparting a sliding motion thereto.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EDGAR J. FINK.

\Vitnesses:

GURVIN H. ALLEWELT, HARRY L. MILLER. 

